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Suggesting that his electability argument could be weakening. joining me now to make sense of this when there are polls that go in different directions the only answer is msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki. walk us through the new polls and what you make of them. >> the tale of two polls. this time yesterday the whole world was talking about a poll that showed joe biden falling to third place on the democratic side. today brand new poll, completely different story. this is mor...

Taken away from president obama. progressive vote continues to be not taken away from president split among nine, ten other trump. taken away from president obama. people and biden is sitting president obama was not happy there as the only moderate in the field. it shows just -- it just shows that this happened because it was embarrassing to him, right? it was very embarrassing to him. where the democratic party has gone over the past four to eight and he wanted russia to be out years. >> yeah. ...

Eight days later, new hampshire, you might say many are tracking sanders already got 61% of the vote in new hampshire. in this presidency is the undermining of the media and the warren, the track record of massachusetts candidates in the undermining of the truth, undermining of the journalists. iowa primary if one of them can the more you do that, the more break through in iowa its hard you think you can live in the to see them not continuing and dream world and make up stuff winning new hampshi...

Voters. this is boiling down to a three-person race. thats why you see the campaign releasing a new television ad in which the vice president, in his own words, recounts about the pertinent tragedies in his life leading into the contrast on policy in which joe biden argues the affordable care act is what we need to build upon not medicare for all, which he argues would be the same as republican efforts to undermine the signature accomplishment from the obama administration. all right. mike, we w...

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Error. 5.7%. and its clearly in conflict with the cnn poll last week, which had biden at 29%, sanders, 15, elizabeth warren, at 14%. so what do you make of this? >> yeah, its early in the race, right? polls will change. and as we knew from 2016, sometimes they can be wrong. but if you take this at face value, its clear, a couple of things. number one, joe biden is no longer your front-runner if this poll is correct. and hes been the front-runner this whole time. sort of pitching himself as the c...

Best crowd to date as jeff zeleny reports. >> were not going to win this by just saying not trump. were not. >> reporter: elizabeth warren sharpening her electability argument and delivering the message to the largest crowds yet of the 2020 campaign. in seattle on sunday, and last week in st. paul, minnesota, warren draws thousands in a sign of rising enthusiasm and growing curiosity about her candidacy. >> that is what im seeing in the crowds. people who are all in. >> reporter: it is a subtle ...

The electability argument is fast becoming -- voters, especially democrats, need to be inspired s and we see when they vote with their head, its catastrophic. weve seen that with gore, dukakis and kerry. and here as this campaign falters, there are others clearly waiting in the wings that can inspire. and i think that, you know, the head of the monmouth polling institute which just released a poll which still proves that hes leading in the polls in iowa said ive not yet met one biden voter that ...

One of the things that is charming about him while he has these gaffes is that he is self-deprecating. i think that helps them along the way but it was that worrying seems to be tapping into what people are upset about in the country and she is going for the passionate vote and the anger vote while he is going for the electability vote and electability is not like the prime mover of getting people out there to have a 15,000 person crowd at your campaign the day before she had a 12,000 prison cam...

>> now warren is trying to reassure democrats that she is not too liberal to be elected. as a whole electability argument and shes been emphasizing that shes a big team player helping the party and other democrats get elected. >> ive been up to 26 states and puerto rico, blue states, red states, read parts of blue states, all of it. i have had a hundred 27 town halls and festival, ive taken 50,000 selfies. [cheers and applause] because i believe that this is our time and this is our way. >> an i...